This beautiful piece was forwarded to me by the amazing Val. It was written by a friend of hers, Frankie Condon. I hope you enjoy it. Mostly I don’t get nostalgic. Maybe it’s that I have enough not-so-nice memories of times past that I’d rather poke holes in myself with a pickle fork than go [...]
Archive for the tag 'homebirth'
August 5 2009
Brilliant — Restaurant Wars!
This post, from Sheridan, is absolutely brilliant. Read it and laugh. And then, if you’re me, get vaguely ill, because it’s come to that. Restaurant Wars
October 1 2008
Aurora vs. the Bureaucrat
I think there’s no time like the present to teach your kids that bureaucracies are made for poking holes in. Like, when they’re three months old. Aurora and I set off for downtown Oakland, to get her paper trail going. Ours is a documentation-crazy society, and it’s far easier to do all this when they’re [...]
February 20 2008
Thoughts at 26 Weeks
So here I am, over halfway. In our culture, for the first baby, you spend all your time panicking about the unknown of it all. In my case, I spent my second pregnancy wholly focused on the event of the birth, which was a planned HBAC, and came with all the challenges inherent to that. [...]
